Why should angry liberal women have all the eye candy in Chuckie Schumer (D-NY) and Dickie Durbin of Illinois? For middle-aged women Massachusetts is becoming the go-to state when it comes to good-looking politicians. What could be better than a Conservative man winning a senate seat in a liberal state? Why, it’s having that Conservative man be a hunk, and that hunky man is Scott | Read More »

…shown here by Joyce Carol Oates and Melissa Lafsky. It’s perfectly natural for a class of people who generally tend to include a short story like The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas* in their lists of ‘good’ science fiction. Which is another way of saying that I’m not surprised that those two authors are being partisan in weighing the balance between justice for an | Read More »

So now’s a great time to bring up the Cape Wind wind farm project again (some background on the topic here). As near as I can tell, the Globe got this one in before the first spadeful of Virginia earth got put on former Senator Kennedy’s coffin: The proposed offshore wind project has sustained more than seven years of heated debate; political maneuvering, including some | Read More »

If OJ, casting his bloody gloves aside, managed to stay out of jail and got involved in politics. If he ran for the Senate and won a seat. If after attaining the title of Senator, Orenthal managed to put down his golf clubs long enough to sign a few pieces of kid friendly legislation, at his passing, would we be “lionizing” him and ignoring the | Read More »

I accidentally stumbled upon the little-watched chat fest on MSNBC (also known as the White House Press Office) hosted by liberal muse Rachel Maddow. What a fun and snarky gal she is! I often get criticized by whining liberal readers of my columns on Examiner.com or on my own blog that I am “too mean” and that my sarcasm is too much. My “meanness” is | Read More »

Reports indicate that Teddy “bridge diver” Kennedy has privately sent a letter to the Massachusetts governor asking that the state amend its succession laws. This is in an effort to avoid a vacancy should the ever-thirsty Senator have to leave the senate due to his life-threatening brain tumor. The current law was enacted in 2004 when the liberal Democrats of Massachusetts deluded themselves into thinking | Read More »

Amid the countrywide smack downs of various public officials in the form of town hall meetings, the wisdom in Palin’s resignation becomes clearer. While the Democratic majority, drunk with euphoria over the Sotomayor confirmation and the ensuing havoc her activist agenda will wreck with the constitution, sees the crowds as “angry” and “inauthentic,” there is a real truth to the passion and opposition to the | Read More »